In this post I will show you how to create a background image for your website using HTML5 canvas. With simple JavaScript and HTML5 basic drawing techniques we will create our own website background pattern generator. The images created can be used for the website background just like any other image patterns. Canvas Drawing...
Liferay Beanshell scripts are a quick way of handling Liferay portal administration tasks that otherwise would take a very long time to do manually.
Though we all like to write code, it is very nice and useful if we have good tools for visually designing websites that automatically create code from a visual design. With the appearance of HTML5 and concepts like responsive design came the need for a visual design tool that will fit the bill. Here are...
Usually programmers like myself seldom find the times to do research about coding areas not related to the projects they do. So, in my case, being involved mainly in back-end development I find it hard to keep up to date with front end frameworks and technologies. However, besides my job, I’m also involved in other...
What is a Custom HTML Tag? A custom HTML tag is a tag that is not part of the standard set of HTML tags. What is cool is that you can instruct the browser to recognize and display custom HTML tags. Let’s see how. Can You Create Your Own Tags in HTML? When using HTML...
Long shadow design is something that is fairly popular lately, so I decided to “try my hand” into creating jQuery plugin to support the creation the long shadow effect on text and image HTML elements. Long shadow design refers to adding long shadows (ha!) to flat design items giving them a sleek 3D look. I chose making...
jQuery is one of the most popular, if not the most, JavaScript library in use today on the web. It’s been around for a while and web developers have been using it for almost anything from animation to dynamic styling to complex rich user interface applications. I have to be honest, I like jQuery. I’ve...
Doing the MySQL backup In this short post I would like to share with you a problem I encountered and the solution found while working with the MySQL tool mysqldump. The story is quite simple: doing some maintenance work on one production application server it was standard procedure to make a full MySQL backup before...
Creating a simple glossy button with CSS is quite easy and you only need to know a few CSS tricks. In this post I will show you how to create a glossy button out of an anchor tag using only CSS. At the end of the post you can find the live demo for these...
Hibernate batch insert refers to making Hibernate insert multiple records with one query. Some databases support this kind of queries, and some do not. MySQL supports batch inserts, but in order to make Hibernate batch inserts work you need to configure it properly. A batch insert query looks like this: INSERT INTO table (col1, col2)...